Criminal Released on Zero Bail Kills Girlfriend

A California gang member convicted of the stabbing murder of his 17-year-old girlfriend has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.  Kristine de Leon of KTLA reports on the day that he stabbed Jolina Ramirez to death, Miguel Angel Reyes has just been released from the Orange County jail under the state’s zero-bail order to protect him from catching Covid-19.  Reyes was being held for a gang-related crime at the time of his release.  As the Orange County District Attorney noted, “We didn’t need the zero-bail experiment to tell us what we already knew:  when you let criminals out of jail, they commit more crimes.  It is an unforgivable tragedy that a 17-year-old girl is dead—and she didn’t have to die.”